Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Krishna knows how to look at that tree.
A tree of Veda.
And we're told: what comes from there?
Veda-pushpa. The flower of the tree of Veda
comes in the form of Vedanta.
The Vedanta sutra.
Dig-darshan.
Telling us what?
Anandam brahmano viduh.
ananda mayo bhyasat
The original source of everything is happiness personified.
If you can read it.
That's what Gurudev told me once, when we were at the time of Radhashtami.
Singing all these songs of Bhaktivinod Thakur.
Where it's says, I don't know the line, but:
vede bole... something... radha cha...
Saying that, more or less, I mean, paraphrasing, that:
All the Vedas declare, sing and declare
that Krishna is the property of Radharani and Her girlfriends.
And I'm saying: Maharaj, how can he say that?
I mean I'm saying that in like:
"Wow! That's an outrageous statement!"
By one meaning of the word outrageous.
It's astonishing, it's shocking!
Bhaktivinod Thakur: "All the Vedas are saying this."
Really? Is that what they're saying?
If you are listening to them
and they don't appear to be saying that,
who's a better observer: rishi? you?
Who cannot hear, see, taste, touch, smell that divine substance?
Or the connoisseur: Bhaktivinod Thakur.
So Gurudev answered it very beautifully, he said:
"He can say that because he has a vision of the whole".
That's how.
If you look at the part,
if you look at the tree without the mango
it's confusing.
If this is a mango tree why are there no mangos?
Well, there, Vedanta-pushpa...
ananda mayo bhyasat
anavritti shabdah
nigama kalpa taror galitam phalam
shuka-mukhad amrita-drava samyutam
pibata bhagavatam rasam alayam
muhur aho rasika bhuvi bhavukah (SB 1.1.3)
What they say?
The mature, ripened fruit of the tree of Vedic literature.
Then we understand.
When you see the fruit, taste the fruit,
relish the fruit, the substance
muhur aho rasika...
repeatedly relishing this divine nectarine substance
for those.
They understand: that's the purpose of the flower,
that's the purpose of the tree.
The only reason the tree exists
is to produce this fruit.
Without this fruit what is that tree?
When you taste this fruit
then you can celebrate that tree in all it's fullness
and understand: each part of it is glorious
and really in some way...
This is Guru Maharaj's ontological method
of deciphering and going deeper into reality.
So we're saying: if the Garuda-purana, for example, says:
artho yam brahma sutranam, bharatartha vinirnayah, gayatri bhasya rupo sau, vedartha paribrimhitah
Saying... If it says, gayatri bhasya, this book with eighteen thousand shlokas.
Eigthteen thousand shlokas commentary on one shlok?
Or Gurudev said...
When Guru Maharaj, I was prompting him
to give the Gayatri explanation to record it,
I was so excited and worried, I listened to the tape:
I test the tape recorder as soon as he stops speaking
to make sure I had it.
There's another tape recorder and I can hear, like:
I play it back in front of him to make sure.
But when in the beginning, because I told Gurudev
we're gonna do, we're like gonna get Guru Maharaj to like go in that direction
and get in that mood and...
And Gurudev said: one lakh shlok of Mahabharata in one shlok.
gayatri bhasya rupo 'sau vedartha paribrimhitah